Molly Ringwald
I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.Collection: Failure
In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
You can't be 16 forever.
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.
I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.
And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.
I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.
People feel like they grew up with me.
I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.
I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack.
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.
Originally I considered myself a singer.
I have a very independent spirit.
I just needed to leave Hollywood.
I never really felt like I belonged in California.
John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.
I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.
The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.
I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
I do regret, as I described in my book, the time that I shaved off half of my eyebrows thinking that I could draw them in better - and they would grow back anyway.
I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.Collection: Appreciation
The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.Collection: Lying
We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.Collection: People
From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.Collection: Forgiveness
The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.Collection: Running
I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.Collection: Believe
Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.Collection: Self Esteem
It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.Collection: Thinking
Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.Collection: Crazy
My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't really dispense with a lot of advice when it comes to the music. He's taught me a lot over the years, but when I was taking on this project he's really hands-off about that. He just appreciates what I've done and is very supportive, and of course really proud.Collection: Dad
Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.Collection: Sleep
I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.Collection: Writing
What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.Collection: Want
I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.Collection: Writing
I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.Collection: Writing
I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.Collection: Book
I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.Collection: Thinking
I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.Collection: Writing
I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.Collection: Writing
If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.Collection: Change
I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they get.Collection: Mother
I'm really intimidated by beautiful people. Beautiful guys, especially.Collection: Beautiful
Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?Collection: Money
All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.Collection: Mean